Progressive Pets

[abbey1227]

Apr 28, 2022 16:27:17 GMT merh said:

Apr 28, 2022 12:44:48 GMT abbey1227 said:

and you wanna offer everyone healthcare and therapy?     

I wear a pentagram, an eye of Horus & mjolnir (all silver) for good luck.
When I buy a lotto ticket I remind the California  bear I'm a California girl. Be nice to look after me.

Not hurting anyone. But yeah, superstitious. 

I've my own slight superstitions. And I'm more than willing to let people have their own beliefs so long as it doesn't affect me.

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Here's a conspiracy theory

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[abbey1227]

May 1, 2022 2:11:38 GMT merh said:

Cats would have told us if birds weren't real........right?

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May 1, 2022 2:15:27 GMT abbey1227 said:

May 1, 2022 2:11:38 GMT merh said:

Cats would have told us if birds weren't real........right?

What about hunting dogs?

Cats chase just about anything small.
LIke Lazer pointer dots.

So cats would take out fake birds just for fun

[abbey1227]

May 1, 2022 2:21:30 GMT merh said:

May 1, 2022 2:15:27 GMT abbey1227 said:

Cats would have told us if birds weren't real........right?

What about hunting dogs?

Cats chase just about anything small.
LIke Lazer pointer dots.

So cats would take out fake birds just for fun

They're most soft mouth and good for retrieving  

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SAN DIEGO — A pelican plopped down in front of an airliner on the taxiway at San Diego International Airport Thursday, prompting a brief standoff that ended with the bird flying off unharmed.

The unusual encounter happened around 1:30 p.m. as a Horizon Air E-175 tried to taxi to the runway for departure. The outbound plane, headed for Everett, Washington, came to a halt when the pilots noticed a feathered obstacle.

“Sir, you’re not going to believe this but we are unable (to proceed) because of a pelican sitting here on the taxiway,” a pilot tells air traffic control in audio recorded by the crew on FOX 5’s newsgathering helicopter. “And he’s not moving.”

The pilot reasoned the bird might be hurt. The standoff continued for a few minutes, with the pilot checking back in at one point.

“Tower, did you say you were sending airport ops to get the pelican?” the aviator asked, perhaps a touch sheepishly. The tower assured him that help was on the way.

A short time later, an airport SUV drove right up to the pelican, video from SkyFOX showed. The SUV stopped just short of the bird, which at first appeared unperturbed. The SUV slowly rolled farther, closing in on the bird, which suddenly spread its wings and flew off without further incident.

“It was not injured; however I was told it was a bit reluctant to leave,” airport spokesperson Sabrina LoPiccolo later told FOX 5 by email. “A member of our airside operations team responded to the taxiway to encourage the pelican to move which it eventually did. There was a bit of a plane backup, but everything is back to normal.”

Just another day in San Diego.

[abbey1227]

May 1, 2022 5:02:44 GMT merh said:

SAN DIEGO — A pelican plopped down in front of an airliner on the taxiway at San Diego International Airport Thursday, prompting a brief standoff that ended with the bird flying off unharmed.

The unusual encounter happened around 1:30 p.m. as a Horizon Air E-175 tried to taxi to the runway for departure. The outbound plane, headed for Everett, Washington, came to a halt when the pilots noticed a feathered obstacle.

“Sir, you’re not going to believe this but we are unable (to proceed) because of a pelican sitting here on the taxiway,” a pilot tells air traffic control in audio recorded by the crew on FOX 5’s newsgathering helicopter. “And he’s not moving.”

The pilot reasoned the bird might be hurt. The standoff continued for a few minutes, with the pilot checking back in at one point.

“Tower, did you say you were sending airport ops to get the pelican?” the aviator asked, perhaps a touch sheepishly. The tower assured him that help was on the way.

A short time later, an airport SUV drove right up to the pelican, video from SkyFOX showed. The SUV stopped just short of the bird, which at first appeared unperturbed. The SUV slowly rolled farther, closing in on the bird, which suddenly spread its wings and flew off without further incident.

“It was not injured; however I was told it was a bit reluctant to leave,” airport spokesperson Sabrina LoPiccolo later told FOX 5 by email. “A member of our airside operations team responded to the taxiway to encourage the pelican to move which it eventually did. There was a bit of a plane backup, but everything is back to normal.”

Just another day in San Diego.

Airplanes should have horns, right?

[merh]

May 1, 2022 12:07:12 GMT abbey1227 said:

May 1, 2022 5:02:44 GMT merh said:

Airplanes should have horns, right?

Notice it was a vehicle?
Pelicans are vicious.
No one was going to go up there to shoo away that thing

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[abbey1227]

May 1, 2022 21:30:47 GMT merh said:

May 1, 2022 12:07:12 GMT abbey1227 said:

Airplanes should have horns, right?

Notice it was a vehicle?
Pelicans are vicious.
No one was going to go up there to shoo away that thing

I've heard.

They have a lot of issues with birds around planes. Not a good thing at take off

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This is the exact place where Julius Caesar was assassinated by his senators. It, and the ruins around it have become a cat sanctuary

Hope he liked cats.

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Australia
3 eyed snake

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Jurassic World dropped the ball

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The One Hundred and One Dalmatians has a far lesser known sequel: The Starlight Barking. Published in 1967, the story features the same characters but a wildly different plot. In it, the dogs take over the government, get the ability to fly, and an omnipotent dog god descends from the heavens.

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A butterfly drinking the tears of a turtle, in Ecuador. This behaviour is known as lachryphagy (tear drinking), and is one of several ways butterflies obtain moisture and nutrients. This was photographed by Ama la Vida.

"The sight of butterflies flocking onto the heads of yellow-spotted river turtles in the western Amazon rain forest is not uncommon, at least if one is able to sneak up on the skittish reptiles. But the reason why butterflies congregate onto the turtles may be stranger than you think: to drink their tears.

The butterflies are likely attracted to the turtles' tears because the liquid drops contain salt, specifically sodium, an important mineral that is scant in the western Amazon, said Phil Torres, a scientist who does much of his research at the Tambopata Research Center in Peru and is associated with Rice University.

Unlike butterflies, turtles get plenty of sodium through their largely carnivorous diet. Meat contains significant levels of the salt, Torres told LiveScience.

But herbivores sometimes struggle to get enough sodium and other minerals, he added. "They end up needing this extra mineral source," he said."